Bug#472758: texinfo: internal error: LaTeX not recognised as a language

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

tags 472758 + fixed-upstream
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On 26.03.08 Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso (jordigh@gmail.com) wrote:

> Package: texinfo
> Version: 4.11.dfsg.1-4
> Severity: minor
> 
> While trying to build some old documentation, I encountered the
> following problem:
> 
>      jordi@Iris:~/coding/devel/lidia/lidia-2.2.0$ make doc
>      Making all in doc
>      make[1]: Entering directory
>      `/home/jordi/coding/devel/lidia/lidia-2.2.0/doc'
> 
>      TEX="latex" PDFTEX="pdflatex" TEXINPUTS=".:$TEXINPUTS"
>      BIBTEX="bibtex" BIBINPUTS="." MAKEINDEX="makeindex -s LiDIA.ist"
>      INDEXSTYLE="." texi2dvi -l LaTeX LiDIA.tex
> 
>      /usr/bin/texi2dvi: internal error, unknown language: LaTeX
> 
> (a few linebreaks added for clarity)
> 
texi2dvi --help says now

  -l, --language=LANG        specify LANG for FILE, either latex or texinfo
      --no-line-error        do not pass --file-line-error to TeX

the options, which have to be used. The fix is in 4.13 -> tagging as
fixed in upstream.

H.
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